3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: First Aid Kit, Special Interest, and R.A.P. Ferreira

First Aid Kit

3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: First Aid Kit, Special Interest, and R.A.P. Ferreira First Aid Kit image via Olof Grind November 7, 2022 There’s so much good music out […]

Cheick Tidiane Seck: Kelena Fôly review – deeply human vocals and piano from a Malian master | Music

Cheick Tidiane Seck: Kelena Fôly album cover

There are few places to hide on a solo piano record. The often fragile and expressive format has been a gauntlet for some of music’s great improvisers, including Abdullah Ibrahim on 2021’s Solotude and Keith […]

Jack White Is in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon

Jack White Is in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon

Jack White is a member of the ridiculously stacked cast for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film Killers of the Flower Moon, according to music supervisor Randall Poster. During a recent appearance on Billions showrunner Brian Koppelman’s podcast The […]

See the Surviving Members of the Jackson 5 Now — Best Life

Randy Jackson, Michael Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, and Jackie Jackson at the 1972 Royal Variety Performance in London

With era-defining hits including “I Want You Back,” “ABC,” and “I’ll Be There,” the Jackson 5 were one of the biggest musical acts of the late 1960s and early ’70s. The family band originally included […]

‘My heart is racing, I’m terrified’: Cat Power on recreating Bob Dylan’s infamous 1966 ‘electric’ gig | Cat Power

Wired for sound … Bob Dylan performing at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester in 1966.

Recently, Chan Marshall was driving to a rehearsal studio in Los Angeles. It was days before she was heading to Europe for a run of dates that includes a night at the Royal Albert Hall, […]

Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X review – a neglected opera returns to urgent life | Classical music

Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X album cover

John Adams’s Nixon in China, first performed in 1987, is usually regarded as launching the concept of “CNN opera”: music-theatre works that dealt with contemporary events and recent history, often with protagonists who were still […]

Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X review – a neglected opera returns to urgent life | Classical music

Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X album cover

John Adams’s Nixon in China, first performed in 1987, is usually regarded as launching the concept of “CNN opera”: music-theatre works that dealt with contemporary events and recent history, often with protagonists who were still […]

New to Disney Plus in November 2022: Andor finale, Disenchanted

Diego Luna as Cassian Andor pretending to be Keef Girgo, wearing a tan vest as he pleads at the court bench, while a green alien guard stands behind him with a weapon in hand

Disney Plus launched in 2019 with most of Disney’s back catalog, but the platform still hasn’t reached maximum capacity just yet. In addition to original content, like the currently airing Andor series, there is a […]

The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan review – an enlightening listen-along | Music books

The Clash (l-r: Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon) performing in 1981.

In 1993, Bob Dylan released World Gone Wrong, an album of cover versions of what might be called pre-modern songs by some of the early blues and folk performers that he revered. Dylan’s sleeve notes […]

Marshall’s Never Stop Listening Shares Powerful Sound with New Artists

Marshall’s Never Stop Listening Shares Powerful Sound with New Artists

For Kid Bloom, it’s all about the journey. This past summer, the Los Angeles native released his debut album Highway, a synth-laced, 80’s pop-inspired LP that he worked on through the pandemic. “There were great […]

How many siblings did Michael Jackson have?

The Jackson family shot to stardom with their Motown music

THE Jackson family are best known for birthing one of the greatest popstars of all time, Michael Jackson. But MJ also had musically gifted siblings who helped catapult him to stardom. But how many? 9 […]